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Hi, i've just started playing Star Wars Galaxies and am quite confused.

I started my character and read the manual as to how i get materials. I have surveyed with the mineral surveyer thingy, and every mineral i choose i can't seem to take a sample for some reason...I'm on the planet Naboo and i haven't a clue how to make anything...

From what i gather the crafting toolkit gives me a list of what i make and what i need...from the two surveyers (mineral and Floral) i can't seem to find ANY of the materials i need to make anything...will someone please point me to a guide thats easier than the manual or help me with a few pointers...and please no technical language because i wouldn't understand it . I'm a complete n00b .

Well, I don't know of any actual guides for mining or crafting out there, but check out swgcraft.com (I think). They have a good collection of schematics and requirements. Stratics might too, but I don't have that address on me.

As far as surveying/sampling/mining, I offer the following advice

1. Make sure that the resource concentration is actually high enough to sample first. On the little screen on the surveyor, try to find a spot of 30 - 40% or greater if you want to hand-sample.

2. Make sure you have enough mind. Sampling and surveying cost you points out of your mind pool. When you survey, you'll notice that your blue mind pool looses points, and when you stop surveying you'll see thatit slowly regenerates. Make sure that before you start sampling you have plenty of blue in that bar.

What server are you on?

Hey there... Im an Artisan on the Sunrunner server. I'll try helping you out. First thing is, you need a General Crafting Tool (which you should have been giving if you chose Artisan as your starting profession). Also, you'd need some survey devices, mainly the 'Mineral Survey Device' and the 'Chemical Survey Device'. These two are the main ones you'll need to make the better (more useful item, easier to sell items) items.

Lets look at crafting a 'Fishing Pole'. If you load up your 'General Crafting Tool' you will see that a Fishing Pole requires the following...

7 Units of Inorganic, 2 Units of Metal, 4 Units of Chemical, 5 Units of Metal. So, after finding out what you need, you need to 'Survey' for the resources you need by using the appropriate tool (for the metal, you'd use the Mineral Survey tool and the Chemical, the Chemical Survey Tool).

As for the survey part, this is pretty easy when you are crafting the basic items, as they dont need specific resources. As you progress up the Artisan Skill line the items require harder to find resources, and surveying them can take a long time. So, to survey for the metal required, you'd load up your Mineral Survey Device, then chose a Metal to survey (at this stage it doesnt matter, but you'll want to survey them all until you find the one with the highest concentration). Once you've found one, you need to 'Sample' the resource, this will mine the resource. Once you've mined enough of all the required resources its time to build your item.

Building the item is just a matter of dragging the resources on the appropriate spots and clicking assemble. There is alot more to crafting than this, but this is a brief overview. I hope this helps a little bit.

If you require anymore help on Crafting or Surveying please send me a private msg.

Also it would be good for your resource density to be at LEAST 50% if you want a good sample. That would get you at least 3 minerals or even more.

Very true, and once you get into Crafting a little more you'll want to look out for the resource stats, and look for the highest Overall Quality and the like...

Thank you so much guys this really helped! I'm slowly understanding things now ^_^ ty ty!

I dunno why no one has answered yet. You need Cooking I (or whatever the second to the right skill is in the tree) to make the panels. I just figured that out too. Too bad I made some boots and I guess Trandoshins can't wear them.

you need domestic arts 1 to craft fiberplast panel

its requires fiberplast and metal

Cool, thanks a lot guys!

This may sound very nubish but how do i make fiberplast panels. Im trying to make bone armour but i can't get the panels. I harvested fiberplast and the right amount of resources for everything else but what do i do now? Help please

I thought I would try for help here before I go to the CSR's since it could be just me doing something stupid. I have a house where I dropped a weapons, and general crafting station. When I am in front of it and open up the general crafting tool (I am a Eng4) I can make stuff but it will not let me experiment. If I open the weapons tool and try to make something it will not work. What am I doing wrong? If i double click on the personal station and click a product it just goes to the loading screen for the schematic and doesn't stop. I have to hit the little x.

Thanks in advance
shawn

You cant exp with a general crafting tool. If you are making weapons, you'll need the weapon tool. If it's food or meds, you'll need the food/ chem tool.

Even when I pick the weapons crafting tool it does not work to get experiment.

Shawn